In an interview for NBC News, Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, affiliate assistant professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at…
Dileep R. Yavagal, MD, Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Chief Interventional Neurologist at the University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine, describes a treatment that has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cardiac troponin-I is superior to electrocardiogram and creatinine kinase MB for predicting myocardial injury after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – INR testing intervals of 4 weeks or less are typically recommended for patients on long-term warfarin therapy, but new research suggests that less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are less likely to survive until discharge if they have a known history of prior atherosclerosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single question may be all it takes for primary care providers to accurately screen patients who may be drinking too much, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vertebroplasty does not improve the pain or disability associated with osteoporotic spinal fractures, according to the results of two randomized trials appearing in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that the time it takes for an ambulance to transport a cardiac arrest patient from the field to the hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome, elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels add important prognostic data, independent of echocardiographic findings, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Of all the tests commonly used to diagnose syncopal episodes in older patients, postural blood pressure testing is the one most likely to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When considering risk factors for venous thromboembolism, recent lengthy travel does not appear to be a significant candidate, according to results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with pulmonary thromboemboli, the presence of a mobile right cardiac thrombus (MRCT) is strongly linked to death, new research shows. Although…
